B.A. English Question paper

Compulsory Paper II

Max Marks: 30

Note: The Question paper is divided into three sections A, B, and C. Write Answer as per the given instruction.

Section-A (Very Short Answer Type Questions)

Note: Answer all questions. As per the nature of the question you delimit your answer in one word, one sentence or maximum up to 30 words. Each question carries 1 mark.                                                                 6×1=06

1. What is Decoding?

2. How is eye contact important in communication?

3. What planning is important before an Interview?

4. What is the difference between Tone and Tempo?

5. What different methods and sources are used in report writing?

6. Name different types of business letters?

 

Section-B (Short Answer Questions)

Note: Answer any 4 questions. Each answer should not exceed 100 words. Each question carries 3 marks. 4×3=12

7. How can you differentiate business letter from personal letter?

8. What are circulars and memorandum?

9. Discuss the techniques for tackling tricky questions in an interview?

10. What are modifiers?

11. Explain the structure of memo report.

 

Section-C (Long Answer Questions)

Note: Answer any two questions. You have to delimit your each answer maximum up to 400 words. Each question carries 06 marks.

12. What are sales letters? How they different from placing orders’ letters?

13. Write a technical report for the computer firm you are working as an executive officer.

14. Write a note on different types of employment interview, describing clearly the purpose for which they are conducted?

15. What are the essentialities for good and effective communication?

Compulsory Paper – I

Max Marks: 30

Note: The Question paper is divided into three sections A, B, and C. Write Answer as per the given instruction.

Section-A (Very Short Answer Type Questions)

Note: Answer all questions. As per the nature of the question you delimit your answer in one word, one sentence or maximum up to 30 words. Each question carries 1 mark.                                                                 6×1=06 

1. Identify the basic sentence pattern of the following sentences.
   1. She sings well.
   2. They named the child Raju.
2. Use correct prepositions:
   1. Who are you talking ______?
   2. I have no house to live _______.
3. Make one sentence each using the following modals:
   1. Need not
   2. Ought to
4. Choose the correct options:
   1. Every clerk and assistant was/were in the meeting.
   2. The military has/have a very strict discipline.
5. Make sentences to show the difference between the meanings of these similar words.
   1. Accept
   2. except
6. Use simple past or present perfect tense:  When I ___to France, I ____some renowned artists. (Go, Meet)

Section-B (Short Answer Questions)

Note: Answer any 4 questions. Each answer should not exceed 100 words. Each question carries 3 marks. 4×3=12

7. Explain the use of simple present and present continuous tenses.
8. Draw, label and mention the positions of various speech organs.
9. Explain free and bound morphemes.
10. Describe some of the features of modals.
11. Explain with examples:
    1. Transitive verb
    2. Intransitive verb
    3. Verbs of incomplete predication

 

Section-C (Long Answer Questions)

Note: Answer any two questions. You have to delimit your each answer maximum up to 400 words. Each question carries 06 marks. 

12. Discuss methods to express future in English.
13. Write a précis of the following passage giving suitable title.

Gandhi believed in primal innocence of the tribal and associated them with their oneness with nature. Ambedkar was of the view that the village scenario envisaged by Gandhi only promoted backwardness and ignorance. He believed that all backward societies should aspire to be industrialized societies. Industrialization and consequent urbanization, he said, are the antidotes to untouchability in India. It’s only, because untouchability was far less rampant in urban India, then, when rural India owing to progressive social structures promoted by urbanization.

Against this backdrop it is pertinent to ask why, whenever there is talk about the price which nevertheless must be paid for development, this price must always be paid by the disadvantaged and the benefits enjoyed by an influential few. In fact notions like progress, development, backwardness are very slippery and the words cannot connote the same thing for everybody. With this is aligned the vexed question of “what constitutes human progress?” what are the costs? Is there space for compromise? As more and more land around us gets denuded of its green cover to meet the demands of a billion Indians, where do we draw the line?

14. Enumerate and discuss the tips for writing good and effective summary.
15. Write a letter to your sister advising her to read newspapers.

Prose and Fiction-III

Max Marks: 30

Note: The Question paper is divided into three sections A, B, and C. Write Answer as per the given instruction.

Section-A (Very Short Answer Type Questions)

Note: Answer all questions. As per the nature of the question you delimit your answer in one word, one sentence or maximum up to 30 words. Each question carries 1 mark.                                                                 6×1=06

1. Who messed up with the previous job George and Lennie had?
2. How does Montresor make sure that the house is empty?
3. Which work does the title Of Mice and Men come from?
4. Which occasion “A Tryst with Destiny” was written for?
5. Where did APJ Abdul Kalam work initially?
6. Whose first novel is Watch and Ward (1871)?

Section-B (Short Answer Questions)

Note: Answer any 4 questions. Each answer should not exceed 100 words. Each question carries 3 marks. 4×3=12

1. What is Luchesi’s role in the story of “A Cask of Amentillado”?
2. How does the first chapter in “Of Mice and Men” explain the relationship between George and Lennie?
3. In “A Room of One’s Own”, what techniques does Virginia Woolf employ in presenting her arguments?
4. Why to Chinua Achebe writing in English is important?
5. What is the relevance of the title Native Son?

Section-C (Long Answer Questions)

Note: Answer any two questions. You have to delimit your each answer maximum up to 400 words. Each question carries 06 marks.

1. Discuss some of the gender issues in “A Room of One’s Own” by Virginia Woolf.
2. Discuss the main theme of Of Mice and Men.
3. Discuss the Postmodernist element in “Split at the Root”
4. Was Bigger’s flight an attempt to escape fear or a realization of self-deception or both? Discuss.

Poetry and Drama-III

Max Marks: 30

Note: The Question paper is divided into three sections A, B, and C. Write Answer as per the given instruction.

Section-A (Very Short Answer Type Questions)

Note: Answer all questions. As per the nature of the question you delimit your answer in one word, one sentence or maximum up to 30 words. Each question carries 1 mark.                                                                 6×1=06

1. What is the underlying idea of the poem “Genesis”?
2. What was the poem “To a Shade” occasioned by?
3. Was Eliot a rationalist? Discuss.
4. What role does mother Kali play in “Hayavadana”?
5. Comment on the use of myth in “The Family Reunion”?
6. Why does T.S. Eliot say “I want to resign my life foe this life”?

Section-B (Short Answer Questions)

Note: Answer any 4 questions. Each answer should not exceed 100 words. Each question carries 3 marks.    4×3=12

1. Discuss the theme of “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus?
2. Closely analyze the sun imagery in “Sunday Morning”?
3. How does Daruwala depict the mistress in his poem?
4. What is the responsibility of the poet according to Jayant Mahapatra?
5. Write a note on Eliot’s use of myth in poetry and drama?

Section-C (Long Answer Questions)

Note: Answer any two questions. You have to delimit your each answer maximum up to 400 words. Each question carries 06 marks.

1. Simplicity is the cardinal virtue of Ezekiel’s poetry. Discuss?
2. Lowell’s genius lies in the rendering of sensuous images. Discuss?
3. Elucidate in detail Ted Hughes as ‘a contemporary writer’ with reference to his poems?
4. African poetry is an assertion of the concept of the white man’s ego. Explain?

Prose and Fiction-II

 Max Marks: 30

Note: The Question paper is divided into three sections A, B, and C. Write Answer as per the given instruction.

Section-A (Very Short Answer Type Questions)

Note: Answer all questions. As per the nature of the question you delimit your answer in one word, one sentence or maximum up to 30 words. Each question carries 1 mark. 6×1=06

1. What is the primary theme of “Machines and Emotions”?
2. What is the primary theme of “Deep Water”?
3. How did the first of the three spirits look like?
4. Why did the peddler refuse the invitation?
5. Why had Fielding come to India?
6. What is ‘Non-sense poetry’?

Section-B (Short Answer Questions)

Note: Answer any 4 questions. Each answer should not exceed 100 words. Each question carries 3 marks. 4×3=12

1. How is Paul’s mother responsible for his death?
2. What is the theme of “The Ant and the Grasshopper”?
3. What did Aziz feel on meeting Mrs. Moore?
4. How was Douglas affected by the thoughts of Roosevelt?
5. What are the disease snobberies of the rich people?

Section-C (Long Answer Questions)

Note: Answer any two questions. You have to delimit your each answer maximum up to 400 words. Each question carries 06 marks.

1. Is ‘Emma’ a realistic novel? Give your opinion and justify it.
2. Discuss in detail the theme of “The Lament”.
3. How does Holmes resolve the mystery of Julia’s murder?
4. “A Passage to India” examines the racial misunderstanding and cultural hypocrisies. Discuss in detail.

Poetry and Drama-II

Max Marks: 30

Note: The Question paper is divided into three sections A, B, and C. Write Answer as per the given instruction.

Section-A (Very Short Answer Type Questions)

Note: Answer all questions. As per the nature of the question you delimit your answer in one word, one sentence or maximum up to 30 words. Each question carries 1 mark.                                 6×1=06

1. How does frost correspond to the poet’s mood in “Frost at Midnight?
2. Which poem by Coleridge is confessional and is about failure?
3. What is the reason for which Byron wishes fame?
4. What figure of speech is in “I wandered lonely as a cloud”?
5. Does dramatic monologue do psychological study of a character?
6. Define Oxymoron.

Section-B (Short Answer Questions)

Note: Answer any 4 questions. Each answer should not exceed 100 words. Each question carries 3 marks.  4×3=12

1. What does the Duke want to achieve by talking about his previous wife with the marriage broker?
2. What is the main idea of the poem ‘To Night’ by P.B. Shelley.
3. Wordsworth in ‘The Solitary Reaper’ says about the possible themes of the girl’s song. Do these themes suggest the romantic nature of the girl’s song?
4. What great lectures did the people of old age have, as Arnold depicted the his poem ’Dover Beach’?
5. Explain the line with reference and context ‘Wrap thy form in a mantle gray, Star-inwrought!’

Section-C (Long Answer Questions)

Note: Answer any two questions. You have to delimit your each answer maximum up to 400 words. Each question carries 06 marks.

1. How did Oliver Goldsmith revive the Elizabethan/Shakespearean comedy in She Stoops to Conquer?
2. How does Goldsmith describe the class divide in India in The Deserted Village? Elaborate.
3. Critically examine the poem ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’.
4. Oscar Wild presented the Victorian mannerisms and pompous life in the play ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’. Explain it with examples.

Prose and Fiction

Max Marks: 30

Note: The Question paper is divided into three sections A, B, and C. Write Answer as per the given instruction.

Section-A (Very Short Answer Type Questions)

Note: Answer all questions. As per the nature of the question you delimit your answer in one word, one sentence or maximum up to 30 words. Each question carries 1 mark.         6×1=06

1. What is the locale of Tagore’s story “The Castaway”
2. Who was Mr. Bhushan?
3. Write the meaning of ‘Prejudice’.
4. How many members were in ‘The Spectator Club’?
5. Who destroyed the tokens of Oliver’s parentage?
6. Write the name pseudonym of Charles Lamb.

Section-B (Short Answer Questions)

Note: Answer any 4 questions. Each answer should not exceed 100 words. Each question carries 3 marks.  4×3=12

1. What are the good manners described in Joseph Addison’s “Rural Manners”?
2. Write a note on the character of the Artful Dodger.
3. Addison believes ‘Death levels all’, elaborate this statement.
4. What is the proper use of study in the opinion of Bacon?
5. Summarize the story of ‘The Portrait of a Lady’.

Section-C (Long Answer Questions)

Note: Answer any two questions. You have to delimit your each answer maximum up to 400 words. Each question carries 06 marks.

1. Give a brief description of the members of the Spectator Club as given by Richard Steele in the essay.
2. Write a critical appreciation of ‘Meditations in Westminster Abbey’.
3. Draw a character-sketch of Oliver Twist with references from the text.
4. Suspense and humour are of the prominent literary devices employed by Ruskin Bond in the story ‘The Boy Who Broke the Bank’. Discuss it.

Poetry and Drama

Max Marks: 30

Note: The Question paper is divided into three sections A, B, and C. Write Answer as per the given instruction.

Section-A (Very Short Answer Type Questions)

Note: Answer all questions. As per the nature of the question you delimit your answer in one word, one sentence or maximum up to 30 words. Each question carries 1 mark.       6×1=06

1. To which school does Milton belongs and why?
2. What is lyricism?
3. Why did Antonio and Bassanio go to Shylock?
4. What is quatrain?
5. What is the theme of the sonnet ‘On his Twenty third Birthday’?
6. Why does Pope advise man to study himself and not God?

Section-B (Short Answer Questions)

Note: Answer any 4 questions. Each answer should not exceed 100 words. Each question carries 3 marks. 4×3=12

1. Describe the theme of the poem ‘Death be not proud’.
2. Discuss chief characteristics of seventeenth century poetry with special reference to Milton.
3. Discuss Symbolism with reference to Blake’s The Chimney Sweeper’
4. What message does Pope wishes to give through his poem ‘Essay on Man’.
5. Explain the significance of Anthony’s final speech, beginning with the line, ‘This was the noblest Roman of them all’.

Section-C (Long Answer Questions)

Note: Answer any two questions. You have to delimit your each answer maximum up to 400 words. Each question carries 06 marks.

1. Comment on the significance of Shakespearean soliloquies.
2. Critically examine the poem ‘ A song for St. Cecilia’s Day’.
3. Critically examine Shakespeare’s poem ‘ Let Me Not To My Marriage Of True Minds’.
4. Throw light on the significance of Chorus in the poem ‘ A song for St. Cecilia’s Day’.